The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-04
"Let Her Go, GaIIaeher!"

To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal.
Now that Indianapolis is in the march of prog
REFS and improvement again. every material
advantage that can be reasonably offered to aid
her advancement should be carefully considered
but not overdrawn. to stimulate our own citi-
and in inviting" capitalists to make invest
ment and improvements here 1t is we'll, per-
haps, to have Conservatives to act as a balance
wheel in all enterprises, but these "conssrva-
tives" should have a that the "balance
wheel" is not too heavy for the machinery of
progress. Boom" is an American 'insfitu
ton" and inseparably connected with the ener-
gy and push of the American people Every
body IS happy when floating with its tide and
cities, towns. railroads and other improvements
as It's legitimate results, spring up as by magic
1t does not hurt anyone unless they get in its
way and attempt to hold it down swim up
stream--then they get left" This is year OF
booms in the South. Chattanooga, Birmingham
and other points have been booming all the year.
Ohio has been booming in all the natural gas
REGION and Kansas City. and Wichita and other
points in the West, while at Chicago
there has been a continuous boom for
the last ten fifteen years. Whoever
heard of Chicago man ''grumbling" at their
boom when it increases the population fifty
thousand a year and covers their 'outside
additions with houses and manufactures. A
conservative in Chicago trying to hold down a
boom would be looked upon as belonging to the
prehistoric age" Then why not Indian
apolis have boom of progress and prosper
ity2 Everything make it is here. rail-
roads to all parts OF the country, the Belt
circling the city, affording cheap plants for
manufacture and shipping facilities with water
supplies, and now we are in the "gas belt" and
natural gas is fixed fact for cheap fuel Then
city is surrounded with rich and product
i've agricultural country, a thing no other manu-
featuring place boast of. Look over the
manufacturing cities of the United States.
is situated in the center of a great
and rich agricultural countryl Not
one can be named unless Chicago can be so con-
sidered, and may not this be one of the means
of its continuous BOONE Pittsburg. Cincinnati,
Chattanooga and Birmingham all overshad-
owed by hills and surrounded by a barren and
uring cities. All their supplies must
come from a distance, at cost of transpor-
tation. Indianapolis is surrounded by a rich
agricultural country, producing everything
needed to feed million of people. No other
city possesses this advantage that offers such ia
cilites for manufacturers and while We may
have conservatives" who trying to 'hold
the boom down." the great majority of her cit-
Zens are active, energetic and enterprising men
who. by their push and enterprise, have made
city the great finland city" of the world.
Compared with other great commercial marts our
city is now more prosperous than any of the sur
rounding cities, as shown by the clearing house
reports published in the Journal of the I'd
inst. Take this statement for the week ending
April 80. 1887, compared with April 80, 1886.
week of 1887 compared with same
week of 1886, and see the result Take the in
creased per cent. New York has 80; Boston, Is;
Philadelphia, 2; Chicago IA; st. Louis. l6; San
Francisco. 43: Cincinnati, 81; Pittsburg
27 Kansas City. 90 Louisville.
none Cleveland Is; Columbus, %,
Detroit, g. and indianapolis, 70, over last year
This is fair indication of the business and
prosperity of our city, compared with other great
commercial marts, ana shows an increase of Al
per cent. any of the cities named, and
shows a wonderful increase of business and
prosperity not to be lost sight of in the present
boom. These suggestions made for the
sideration of anyone interested in the prosperity
of our city. HUSTLER